擅

擅 U+64C5, 擅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-64C5
← 擄
[U+64C4] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 擆 →
[U+64C6]

Translingual

Han character

擅 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手卜田一 (QYWM), four-corner 50016, composition ⿰扌亶)

  1. monopolize
  2. claim
  3. arbitrarily
  4. to dare
  5. to be good at

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 457, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12790
  • Dae Jaweon: page 806, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1971, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+64C5

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 擅
2nd round simp. 𢩳

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 擅
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (旦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
皽 *tjaʀ, *tanʔ, *tjanʔ
担 *taːnʔ
胆 *daːn, *daːn
疸 *taːnʔ, *taːns
觛 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *daːnʔ
亶 *taːnʔ
嬗 *taːnʔ, *tʰaːn, *djans
笪 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
狚 *taːnʔ, *taːns, *taːd
旦 *taːns
鴠 *taːns
譠 *tʰaːn, *rteːn
坦 *tʰaːnʔ
但 *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns
檀 *daːn
壇 *daːn
儃 *daːn, *djan
驙 *daːn, *tan
袒 *daːnʔ, *rdeːns
襢 *daːnʔ, *tanʔ, *tans
繵 *daːnʔ
膻 *daːnʔ
澶 *daːns, *djan
邅 *tan, *danʔ, *dans
鱣 *tan
饘 *tjan, *tjanʔ
旜 *tjan
氈 *tjan
鸇 *tjan
顫 *tjans
蟺 *djanʔ
擅 *djans
羶 *hljan
呾 *taːd, *ʔraːd
怛 *taːd
妲 *taːd
靼 *taːd, *tjad
炟 *taːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *djans) : semantic 手 (“hands”) + phonetic 亶 (OC *taːnʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 擅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 時戰切
Baxter dzyenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑjænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑianH/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 sin6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 擅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyenH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]a[n]-s/
English act without authority

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 擅
Reading # 1/1
No. 2094
Phonetic
component		 旦
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 繕
Old
Chinese		 /*djans/

Definitions

擅

  1. to hold all in one's hands; to monopolize
  2. to own; to possess
  3. to be good at
  4. to do on one's own initiative; to do according to one's wishes

Compounds
  • 不擅
  • 專擅／专擅 (zhuānshàn)
  • 擅作主張／擅作主张
  • 擅作威福
  • 擅便
  • 擅入 (shànrù)
  • 擅兵
  • 擅國／擅国
  • 擅場／擅场
  • 擅專／擅专
  • 擅改
  • 擅權／擅权 (shànquán)
  • 擅用
  • 擅自 (shànzì)
  • 擅自作主
  • 擅變／擅变
  • 擅長／擅长 (shàncháng)
  • 擅離職守／擅离职守
  • 攝威擅勢／摄威擅势
  • 文擅彫龍／文擅雕龙
  • 獨擅勝場／独擅胜场
  • 能歌擅舞

Japanese

Kanji
擅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds
Compounds
  • 擅権(せんけん) (senken)
  • 擅恣(せんし) (senshi)
  • 擅制(せんせい) (sensei)
  • 擅断(せんだん) (sendan)
  • 専擅(せんせん) (sensen)
  • 独擅(どくせん) (dokusen)
    • 独擅場(どくせんじょう) (dokusenjō)

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
擅
せん
Hyōgaiji
kan’on

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [sẽ̞ɴ]

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Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 擅 – see the following entry.
【縦ほしいまま】6
[adjective] selfish, at will
[adjective] arbitrary
Alternative spellings
恣, 欲しい儘, 欲しい侭, 肆
(This term, 擅, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

擅 • (cheon) (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

擅: Hán Nôm readings: chen, thiện

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